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It’s a shame that Alasdair just bought a new house, because Starbucks offers pretty much everything he could ever need: comfy chairs, loads of coffee, and Wi-Fi.

You can now add one more reason why you never have to leave the comfort of your favourite coffee shop: Iain Tait is reporting that when you login to their in-store Wi-Fi, the login screen kindly lets you know that you can order a coffee from your laptop and the barista will deliver it to you when it’s ready.

Now that’s the technology/coffee partnership we’ve all been waiting for!

You early iPhone adopters don’t need to pull all your hair out. Uncle Steve has listened to your cries that dropping the price of the iPhone by $200 2 months after release was unfair:

Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple’s website next week. Stay tuned.

There you go. Now you can go get an iPod shuffle or some software or something.

I am now fully convinced that Steve Jobs could shit on stage and the Apple fanboys would eat it up with a brushed metal iSpoon.

I came to this realization after reading the coverage of the “special event” that happened today. Steve Jobs announced that if you want a ringtone from a song on your iPhone you have to buy it first from the iTunes Music Store for 99 cents, then pay another 99 cents to get it converted into a ringtone. Isn’t that just awesome? Paying twice for the same song?

It’s awesome for Apple’s shareholders. Sucks complete ass for people who have to pay for this drek.

The iPod nano got uglified. Shorter, fatter, uglier. Of course it’ll sell like hotcakes.

The iPhone got its phone ripped out, resulting in the “iPod touch”. Never could have seen that coming. Why didn’t they give the “touch” interface to the iPod classic? Because that’ll come in November, just in time for holiday shopping.

Oh, and you poor schleps that bought an iPhone last week? Steve Jobs would like to say “thanks for your money, asshole” because they just dropped the price of the 8GB iPhone by $200. And eliminated the 4GB iPhone. And people say that Apple overprices their products…